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Development of indicators on energy use in agriculture

CAPRI Workshop 8.3.2004 –10.3.2004

This Presentation has been prepared with the support of theSwiss Federal Office for Education and Science FOES, Berne, Switzerland

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Contents Objectives Previous results from CAPRI-project 1997-

1999 Energy consumption calculation method System limitations Energy input of production activities Data demand for direct and indirect energy input

Scheduled work programme Timetable Points of discussion

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Objectives

Developing a module for calculating the energy use of agriculture in all CAPRI-countries

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Energy Consumption Calculation Method

KEA (Cumulated energy consumption, MJ): Total of primary energetic input which is related to the production, utilisation, and disposal of a good (Federation of German Engineers, VDI 1995).

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System Limitations

Total Energy demand

Energy demand for production activities in CAPRI-countries

Energy demand for production and transport of imported intermediate products

= + -

Energy demand for production and transport of exported intermediate products

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Energy Input for Crop and Animal Activities

Crop activities Animal activities

Direct energy input Fuel

Lubricant

Heating oil (green house)

Fuel

Lubricant

Electricity

Heating gas (chicken)

Indirect energy input Machines

Fertilisers

Pesticides

Machine sheds

Machines

Housings

Feed import

Feed processing

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Data Demand for Direct Energy Input (Example crop activity)

Fuel consumption Machine type and equipment for soil preparation,

application of fertilisers and pesticides etc. Number of applications Average fuel consumption of machine type and

work process Existent in Switzerland

Machinery inventory Expertises Life cycle inventories of agricultural production

systems [www. ecoinvent.ch]

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Data Demand for Direct Energy Input (Example animal activity)

Electricity consumption Housing systems Production period per animal Electricity demand for housing systems

Existent in Switzerland Expertises about housing systems Field investigations done for electricity demand

of housing systems

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Data Demand for Indirect Energy Input (Example crop production)

Use of Fertiliser Type of mineral fertiliser Energy input for the production of one

kilo fertiliser Applied mineral fertiliser per crop activity

Existent in Switzerland Life cycle inventories of agricultural

production systems [www. ecoinvent.ch]

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Data Demand for Indirect Energy Input (Example crop activity)

Annual machine energy input Weight and material of machines used Depreciation of total energy requirements over the years Energy input coefficients for the production and

maintenance of the machines

Existent in Switzerland Machinery inventory Life cycle inventories of agricultural production systems

[www. ecoinvent.ch]

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Scheduled Work Programme

1. Defining typical production systems for CAPRI-countries Defining 5-10 typical crop production

and housing systems per product group in the EU

Attributing the typical systems to the production activities in the NUTS II regions.

Teamwork with FAL Braunschweig and project TIPI-CAL?

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Scheduled Work Programme

2. Interface to existing CAPRI data base has to be defined

3. Data collection for typical production systems Statistical records Expertises Environmental inventories

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Scheduled Work Programme

4. Formulating a module for calculating energy use written in GAMS

5. Formulating a projection-module to forcast energy input data

6. Simulations and impact analysis

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Timetable (1. year)

1. Literature review (3 month)

2. Conceptual phase (4) Working paper (7, d17)

3. Defining typical production systems (4)

4. Defining interface CAPRI (1)

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Timetable

Data collection (8) Formulating a module in GAMS (4)

Validated Gams code (24 , d18) Formulating a projection module (5) Simulation runs, Scenario analysis

(7)

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Points of discussion

Data collection – which East European region to include?

Level of detail of energy use? Different energy inputs or total

input? Interface to existing CAPRI data

base – what do we know already?